stolmen bike rack

i really like michael’s idea for bicycle storage with the stolmen posts. i just wonder how easy it is to get the bikes up and down the pole. that’s a workout in itself!

he says, “there are a lot bicycle storage/rack-systems on the market, but none of them met my expectations in function/style and price. i wanted to get 2 bikes on a wall in my apartment.

so i build one on my own. here’s how it looks:

all you need to get from ikea is one stolmen post, two brackets and four hooks. you’ll also need some screws and some aluminium 20x20mm square pipe, maybe some foam rubber.

1. cut two pieces of the square pipe; choose the length depending on the design of your bike frame.
2. drill 3 holes into the pieces of square pipes.
3. screw a hook on each end of the pipe; screw the pipe to the bracket.
4. now you can mount the stolmen post and adjust the two brackets on it.
5. finally glue some of the rubber foam to the hooks to not scratch the bike frame.

that’s it! all in all this should just take you like ½ hour. the price of approximately 40euro is unbeatable.”

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I’m taking this idea and running with it! We are moving into a MUCH smaller place and don’t have the space for four bikes on the floor anymore, maybe this will work. I’ll take photos of the finished product and maybe even post about it on the blog. – skippy

Perfect! I’m coming to terms with the fact that at least for the next year, while my husband is in a very time- and uniform-intensive program, the ironing board is going to live in the living room. We got a new cover for it on Etsy, so it looks nice and bright and fun, but I don’t want it to just sit open all the time. We use it right next to our Stolmen entertainment center anyway, so I’m going to hang it right off the side. We’ll probably move it into our Stolmen’d closet once the need for constant starching subsides. Thanks!

Thanks for the idea!I made a similar set-up in Finland. However, I omitted the horizontal bar and connected hook-bearers together without using the flush backside rings and then mounted the hooks and rotated them 90 degrees sideways to have two hooks side-by-side. The protruding bearer connector (covered in roadie tube) makes this perhaps only suitable for my thin steel frames. I pulled roadie tubes over the hooks completely for complete scratch proofing. I have my post close to the wall with the roadie bars pressing against the wall gently. This avoids wheel contact with the wall.

This is Ron, an editor from a web magazine. (sorry that as the magazine is not launched yet, I cannot announce the name of it here.) I would like to share your post in the web magazine, would you please drop me an email about your contact by [email protected]?

Discontinued? Last week a guy from a Finnish cycling forum was told at local IKEA that they are changing the color of the Stolmen line. New parts are going to be white instead of metal/gray. Unfortunately, the gray hooks were already out of stock and they didn’t have white ones yet.

Here are my tips:1. Be sure and purchase the correct bolt so it mounts flush against the square pipe.2. You can purchase the square pipe at Home Depot in the shelf section (not plumbing.) When I asked if they had it a Home Depot worker told me no. Glad I checked.3. You can purchase the saw from Ikea which has a nice pipe holder which will keep the post flush so your cuts are nice and square.4. You can use “super fine” sandpaper to sand the sides.5. You also need three screws and plastic sheetrock mounts if you are planning on installing it in sheetrock (Ikea doesn’t supply them with the mounts)

Thanks for sharing! I just built this, and it looks and works great. A few notes (partly in response to previous posts):

1. I don’t know how anybody would put this together in half an hour. Maybe under ideal conditions, meaning you had all the parts and tools already there (and the pipe cut to size). I didn’t.

2. Home Depot (at least the one close to my home in Brooklyn) does carry the square aluminium pipe. None of the employees even knew about it though, and I only found it by chance after searching the store for over half an hour.

3. Yes, the pipe looked somewhat scratched and banged up. It also didn’t come in the length I needed (and they wouldn’t cut it for me at the store), so I bought a small hacksaw and cut it myself, then filed the edges down. I’m sure there are more elegant ways to do this, with better looking results, but this works.

4. Drilling the holes isn’t that difficult, as long as you have bits that can handle metal.

5. I used 1/4″ hex bolts, washers, and wing nuts for the hooks, and 3/8″ for the middle hole (which connects the cross bar to the bracket).

6. If you don’t want to drill holes in the ceiling or floor, you can also attach the pole to the wall (hardware is included).

7. Haven’t yet figured out how to keep the front tires from swinging sideways.

Good luck! It took me several trips and hours to assemble all the materials and tools and then build it, but am really happy with the result.

Just a piece of help for the wo/man who needs to get the “black tire marks” “off” your walls.

You might not be able to get the tire marks “off” your wall. And the next step might be to over-paint the spot. But then you could find that the spot shows through when you point it with latex paint. This is also true of ink-type spots.

this looks like a great set-up, but i have one problem, one of my bikes have brake cables running on the bottom side of the top tube…i don’t want to have the bike resting on said cables…anyone have any ideas?

Great hack! I’m just about finished building mine. I have one question; is there any way to not drill into the ceiling/floor? The reason I ask is because I am living in a college dorm next year and I don’t think they would like the holes.

Thanks for the basic idea. :-] Our initial plan was to construct the vertical stripper pole variety, but addition expense would’ve been incurred given our pitched (non-level) ceiling. So, we went horizontal, wall to wall near the ceiling, in a small utility/storage room. My 29er hangs by the rear wheel (absolutely no need for concern re: wheel strength, for a normally tensioned & trued wheel), and the front wheel hangs separately. We used a couple of end connectors, and bought a couple of steel shelf hangers from Home Depot that are rubberized at the working (bicycle contact) end. These hang from the end connector hole, with no modifications necessary.

Sorry for the lack of pix; that would serve to explain things way better than my weak text here. Cheers, =dg=

where were you guys 2months ago! i bought 3 ugly bike mounting hooks from home depot for ~$5 each- the price is better but this rack is much nicer. i would have gladly built this instead to keep the bikes out of the way in our garage.

Make sure you keep the tires away from the walls, or you will get black marks that are impossible to remove. Remember that the front wheel will turn if the rack isn’t 100% level, and it really doesn’t take much contact with the wall to make a mark.

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